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January 17, 2012

"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the
doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even
before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial
hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century
forward, blood flowed in battles of racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only
nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe its indigenous
population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade.
Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse
for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore
all exalt it." ~Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait